The digital life of walkable streets

WWW 2015 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 875-884

  Quercia, Daniele ^a   Aiello, Luca Maria ^b   Schifanella, Rossano ^c   Davies, Adam ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d Walkonomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); URBAN GROWTH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DIGITAL LIFE; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; FINANCIAL COSTS; MOBILE SERVICE; REAL ESTATE; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; STREET SEGMENTS; SURVEY DATA;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84968831987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2736277.2741631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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